Add our herding dog to the brilliant dogs list! For years, we would be home to put her out and feed her at 5pm, but our schedules changed over 2.5 years ago. Now we feed her around 6pm. On weekends though, she starts pacing by the door around 4:45pm. And every night at 9pm, she starts pacing again, telling us it's time to go potty. We get the stare first, and then the pacing. It's amazing how animals sense the time.